p2pnet - rss feed: The unsad tale of Fiona Apple
p2pnet.net News:- Fiona Apple’s album “Extraordinary Machine” was finished more than two years ago, “but was quickly shelved” because the “sad corporate drones” over at Sony didn’t “hear a single” and, “because it doesn’t sound exactly like Norah Jones and because they’re, well, corporate drones,” writes the San Francisco Chronicle’s Mark Morford.
“They dictate cultural tastes based on relatively narrow and often deeply ignorant criteria related to marketing and money and fear of the new and the different.
“This is what they do.”
That is indeed what they do.
Anway, “Extraordinary Machine” somehow ended up online in its entirety and the End 107.7 in Seattle has apparently been playing almost every track, “and it’s all much more finished and incredible than anyone thought,” says the Chronicle piece, going on:
“And fans have been whipping the tracks into high-quality MP3s and splaying them all over the Net, and Rolling Stone and MTV and other media have picked up on the odd story, noting how fans are calling into the station like mad and most everyone loves the songs and protest Web sites like freefiona.com (alongside dedicated fan sites like fionaapple.org) have popped up to try and get some action and yet Sony refuses to actually release the album and the corporate drones remain mum and everyone’s wondering just what the hell’s going on.
“Is it the dumbest test-marketing scheme in Sony history? Is it a silly corporate ploy to gauge fan interest two years after the album should have been released? The DJ, apparently, ain’t telling where he got his copy, but, so far, he has yet to receive a cease-and-desist from Sony, and, while some ISPs are sending threatening notes to bloggers who post the songs and the RIAA is probably having colon spasms, the songs aren’t exactly all that difficult to find.”
Check it out here, or just plug Extraordinary Machine into your favourite search engine ; )
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San Francisco Chronicle - Who Will Free Fiona Apple?, March 16, 2005
March 18th, 2005 at 4:52 am
I really do hope that Fiona Apple see this as a good thing. If she didn’t know before, it is now obvious that she has a large number of dedicated fans who will stick by her and her music even if a record company won’t.
Fiona Apple can now make an informed decision on whether to drop Sony as her publisher. They’re supposed to be working for her remember. She’s the artist, they help her sell her art.
She could even consider self publishing her work with such an impressive fan base. Or perhaps hook up with The John Butler Trio’s label Jarrah. Going independant is worked for those guys when no record company wanted a bar of them (although it’s funny that Big Music is suddenly interested in them now that they’re sucessful).
March 18th, 2005 at 6:34 am
Here’s a great quote from Bono’s acceptance speech at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame last night. Regardless of how people feel about him, hopefully everyone can see that it’s a valuable statement.
“That’s what I’d like you to take away from tonight. I would like to ask the music business to look at itself and ask itself some hard questions. Because there would be no U2 the way things are right now. That’s a fact.”
March 18th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
well said and written.
Unfortunately, your challenge will never be accepted, it’s ok for the record co’s to accuse everyone else of subterfuge, deception, lack of morals or ethics and shady business models….but for them to investigate themselves and reveal that they are as bad or worse than anyone else…well, lets just say I’m not holding my breath.
My secret wish is for full disclosure through independant audits…and not just in Cali but everywhere….if that were to happen there’d be riots in the streets.
TT
March 18th, 2005 at 9:13 pm
I make a radio blog with Extraordinary machine.. The sound is very good. You can find this radio at: http://www.toxicoquebec.com/actus/index.php?/361-extraordinary-machine-de-fiona-apple-lalbum-de-lannee
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J’ai réalisé une page web consacré au dernier album de Fiona Apple “Extraordinary machine” Vous y trouverez entre-autre une radio-blog uniquement consacré à cet album… Le son est de bonne qualité! Vous
trouverez cette page sur: href=”http://www.toxicoquebec.com/actus/index.php?/361-extraordinary-machine-de-fiona-apple-lalbum-de-lannee
March 18th, 2005 at 11:06 pm
The link in the story points to an old torrent that has radio-quality tracks. There is a new one available with CD-quality MP3s:
http://www.torrentbox.com/torrents-details.php?id=13132
(Copy & paste that URL into your browser, because the ?id= part doesn’t get linkified by this site.)
March 21st, 2005 at 2:33 pm
I noticed on the home page of the website, the owner stated that he was considering selling the site. This sale also includes USER LOGS, the owner states. If the owner does not do a minute by minute wipe of the logas, they might be very interesting to the RIAA Gestapo.
March 23rd, 2005 at 7:05 am
It’s not without brilliance, but is without direction. Its all over the place. If it were mixed differently maybe, or if it were retooled by fiona herself on its songwriting level, maybe. I feel the record labels on the record “not having a single” - it doesn’t have its one star “Oh yeah” single as her previous albums have. “Get Him Back” and “Used To Love Him” seem to be the frontrunners as single material, though.
Either way, if you love fiona it’s definately worth downloading and checking out. I mean come on, its MORE fiona.
March 23rd, 2005 at 9:40 pm
that it’s “all over the place”, for me, sets EM in a rarefied category. it’s a fascinating listen. much the same was said about “pawn”, which despite all misguided efforts to squeeze singles out of it, actually did quite well sales-wise. i see no reason EM can’t match that, despite the fact that hundreds of thousands are already listening to it on their ipods.